Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

158 c MAX YAVNO (1921-1985) Leg, Olympic Boulevard, Hollywood. Silver print, the imagemeasuring 13 1 / 4 x10 1 / 4 inches (33.7x26 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Yavno’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1949; printed circa 1960 [3,000/4,500] 159 c MAX YAVNO (1921-1985) A suite of 5 large photographs of San Francisco. Each reproduced in Yavno’s book The San Francisco Book . Silver prints, the images measuring 10 1 / 2 x13 1 / 4 to 15 1 / 2 x19 1 / 2 inches (26.7x33.7 to 39.4x49.5 cm.), the mounts 15x20 to 20x24 inches (38.1x50.8 to 50.8x61 cm.), each with Yavno’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1940s WITH—MAXYAVNO. The San Francisco Book. With photographs by Yavno and text by Herb Caen. This copy inscribed from Yavno to Earle Smith; with an additional 30 signatures, including his own, apparently collected by Smith on the title pages, chronologically dated. Small 4to, green cloth boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY YAVNO IN 1949. Boston: Houghton Miff lin Company, 1948 [5,000/7,500] Market St. Looking East From Twin Peaks, p. 18 * Embarcadero Looking North Past The Ferry Building p. 29 * Golden Gate Bridge Towers From The South , p. 32 * Washington & Jackson St. Cable Car , p. 43 * Ocean Beach Looking South , p. 88. 158 159